[Building Sakai] Blogger tool in Sakai 2.6, the blog posts that are made as public cannot be switched to private after the fact and vice versa.

[Matthew Buckett]

2009/4/29 Kimberly Ma <this4it at gmail.com>:
> Dear Folks,
>
> We are testing Sakai 2.6 in here Rutgers, and found a problem in Blogger
> tool.
> The scenario is when we created a new blog, we set it as private, after we
> posted it , we came back try to change it to SITE by edit the blog,  the
> action took quite amount of time, nothing happened,
> the blog is still set as private. From the log file, we saw :
>
> 2009-04-29 15:37:07,529 ERROR http-8080-Processor25
> uk.ac.lancs.e_science.sakaiproject.impl.blogger.persistence.SakaiPersistenceManager
> - Caught an exception whilst inserting post. Message: java.sql.SQLException:
> Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction
>
> The problem is 100% reproducible on different machines. We did the same
> testing case on sakai 2.5.3, our current production version. The same
> problem did NOT occurred.
>
> Can someone point a direction to debug the problem,

I came across this a few days ago, and created a JIRA for it, with a
patch, although I was somewhere on 2.5.x.

http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-16189

-- 
  Matthew Buckett